Little Hand Flowers

I saw this project over at another blog.http://nurturestore.co.uk/handprint-sunflowers. I loved it so much but wanted to bring in the colors of India. I love the idea of children’s handprints or tracing their precious hands. (Those of you who have children in your life, a child’s hands strikes a special chord to your heart.) It to me is the ultimate in primary art. My students who made these could not contain their happiness of wanting to take them home to give to mom.

Students were saying” My mom takes photos of my art”, “My mom hangs my art in the den”. Another said “My mom takes it to work”, “I cannot wait to give this to my mom.” I have other students who tragically lost one or both parents. This breaks my heart being a parent to see such sadness. Maybe you will understand why I choose to make my classroom a happy classroom, a class where everyone can succeed even if you have a major disability or a tragic history.

To me this is the ultimate feedback -This is what Art is- the emotional connection. They didn’t care what supplies were used or what the process was …… they were just happy and in today’s world this was the best connections my students have made with art.

Painted Paper Art

I have been teaching elementary art for 20 years in Ohio. I love my job and watching my 750 students enjoy the process of creating. I love incorporating children's literature with art lessons, and anything to do with fun, colorful art. I am a mom to two lovable kids. I love to see fun projects and mix it up to create a new project. If you do post about a project please reference back to my blog. It is great getting comments and feedback to pass along to my students. Thanks for checking it out!
Enjoy, Laura